everything from defense to education to food safety to environment programs all impacted. the bush era tax cuts will expire with a hike in tax rates for all brackets. 26 million more taxpayers will be hit with the amt. the payroll tax holiday expires and the federal unemployment benefits extension will also expire. the nonpartisan congressional budget office says that would cause the economy to contract and push unemployment over 9%. david cody, one of those that took part in the meeting, says if a compromise can't be reached, it could send a very bad message to the markets. >> you could have a recession far greater than forecasted because now you get to this crisis of confidence that says my god, those guys can't govern at all anymore. the most fiscally responsible big nation in the world just can't govern itself, so what hope do you have? >> if congress does not act, growth will stall. jobs will be lost and our nation's credit will be hurt. >> the business round table, a lobbying group of the country's leading ceos, began running print and web spots to pressure republica